Pinny Bulman is a Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO award-winning poet. Many of his poems incorporate imagery from his childhood experiences in pre-gentrified Washington Heights, NYC to explore themes of personal and collective transition, displacement, and loss. In addition to the BRIO award (2014), Pinny has been the recipient of an ADR Poetry Award (2013) and a finalist for the Raynes Poetry Prize (2015). His poems have appeared in a variety of literary publications, including Poetica, Red Paint Hill, The Subterranean Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, Jewish Currents, and Mima'amakim.

"I am honored to be part of an Art Kibbutz project because I believe that poetry and art can't exist as a monologue."

i slunk to the curbside edgesworried that some of the night laughterwas directed at the jewish kid inwrinkled old man suitlooking up for a glimpse ofmoon i may as well have been froma skinny curve of whiteboy searching for something to bless,and more,praying for someone streetsideto look up andbless me.